What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn’t deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
SAMUEL JOHNSONMoney and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
More Samuel Johnson Quotes
-
-
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it…. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Women have two weapons – cosmetics and tears
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
None but a fool worries about things he cannot influence.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse, not a remarkable mathematician.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
Each person’s work is always a portrait of himself.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.
SAMUEL JOHNSON -
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
SAMUEL JOHNSON